This book investigates allegorical meaning in the ballets Giselle,
Coppelia, The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake, principally by
examining their original librettos and costume designs, as well as
considering their surviving choreographic legacy. Each ballet is
examined scene by scene in order to identify occult symbols
secreted within its structure. The names of characters, their
costume details (form, colour, pattern and attribute) and the parts
they play and dance (mime, choreographic step and staging) are
individually searched for symbolic correspondences. The author
argues that the meaning of these symbols reveals a serious subtext
embedded within each ballet and shows that these subtexts are all
found to fable the spiritual journey of the soul towards a heavenly
paradise. The distinctive set of symbols and the method of
interpretation differ in each case: Giselle takes on a
Swedenborgian slant, Coppelia hinges on Masonry, while The Sleeping
Beauty and Swan Lake are steeped in mysticism.
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